Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. III, Part 25

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 876

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(III) David, s cond von ar ! child of Cawn and Mary (Bell) Riddle, was be in B. Hord, March 16, 1757. and died in the same town Der mber 18, 1839, aged eighty-two. He was a soldier of the Revolution, an I a pensioner. The name of David Riddle is on the return dated Boxford, Mas ichu- setts, of men mustered by John Cu ling, Muster Master for Essex county to join the Continental army for the term of nine months, agreeable to the resolve of June 9, 1779; also of the descriptive li-t of men raised to serve in the Continent. 1 army for the term of nine months, returned as received of Justin Ely, Commissioner, by Captain Jaimes Tis- dale, at Springfield, Massachusetts, August 23, 1770. Colonel Hutchinson's Regiment. Ile is described as twenty-two years of age, five feet, ten inches

high, of light complexion, and -s engaged for the town of Salem, but whether of Massachusetts or New Hampshire, is not certain. This name is also on Company receipt for equipments, given to Cap tam James Lis lale, dated Springfield, August 22, 1779; als Captain Webb's Company, Colonel Shep- ard's (fourth) Regiment, catering the service .\n gust 17, 1779. He was discharged May 17, 1780, after a term of nine months. He and his brotar Ilugh bought land together, and he afterwards built and resided nearby. He laldl chees of trust mi che town, poundkeeper, selectman, and so forth. He vis I.oted for his originality, and differed in his views on political matters from ins brothers. h. m. rriz.1 in 1798, Mary Dunlap, dug her of Major Dior op. of Bedford. Their children were: John Dunlap, Hugh, Martla, and Gilman and Mary, twins.

(IV) Martha, third child and oldlet daughter of David and Mary (Dunlap) Riddle, was iorn December 10, 1800, and died April 4, 1978, 11 3 d- ford. She married, January 29, 1829, Damit barn- ard (See Barnard \I).

(III) Captain Isaac, fifth child and i dirth son of Gawn and Mary (Beil) Riddle, was tin i Bedford, June 10, 1702, and died in Viny. alas- sachusetts, January 20, 1830, aged sixty-eign. Ile was buried with Masonic honors in the family tomb at Bedford Center. He was a sol her in the Revolutionary army, being a private in Capail Jonas Kidder's Company of Colonel Moves Nich- of's Regiment of Mihtia, which was raised tr jom the Continental army at West Point, serv'ng fr m July 5 to October 23, 1740, and receiving for ser- vices, mileage, etc., the astonishing sum of live hundred and seventy-seven pounds five shillings m the depreciated currency of the time. He al- > is one of those who enlisted to fill up the Continental army in 1781, and served from July 20 til Decem- ber 21. In each case he is credited to Budford. The following account of him is given by lus descendant, John A. Riddle, in his genealogy of the family : "About 1782 he bought the land, built an. I Ivel at No. 27, until about 1820, when he rumoved to Quincy, Massachusetts. After th: Roy lati nary war, having saved a small amount . f 1. mey, misty carned in the military service, he went to Newoury- port, Massachusetts, and purchased a st ck of goods, which was bought o P Boord 1, team, and placed in the front room of his natther's house, No. 65, which was used as a store. Business increased, and he commenced the manufacture of potash from the heavy growth upon the land he had bought. The ashery was located in the field immediately across the road from his house, and h st: 1 .. 1 / 1 as the "pecash field," No. 19. The pot: I was taken to Boston by ox teams, and bartered as a article of export for imported goods. He was extensively engaged in the lumber business, and water the first proprietors of navigation on the Merranac' river. He superintended the building of the licks and canals of the Union Lock and Canal Company, the funds for which were procured by 1 ttery (11- thorized by the State of New Hampshire. In com-

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pany with Colonel Caleb Stark, he built and owned the first canal boat that ever floated on the waters of the Merrimack. It was named the Experiment, was built at Bedford Center, and drawn three miles on wheels by forty yoke of oxen to "Basswood Landing," so called, where it was launched, in the presence of the townspeople, who had gathered to witness the novelty of the day. It was loaded and sailed for Boston, and the following notice is taken from the Boston Centinel of 1813: 'Arrived from Bedford, New Hampshire, canal-boat Experiment, Isaac Riddle, Captain, via Merrimack River and Middlesex Canal.' Upon her arrivel at Boston she was received amid cheers and the firing of cannon. From this commenced a large and extensive inland navigation on the Merrimack, which rendered Man- chester and other manufacturing places possible. Mr. Riddle was the instigator and large owner in the Souhegan Nail, Cotton, and Woolen Manufac- turing corporation, which carried on operations at Riddle's Village, on the Souhegan river, until the destruction by fire of its works in 1829. Its prod- ucts were sold to the country traders, the balance being shipped to Boston, by boats via river and canal. Mr. Riddle also instituted stores, with his sons, William P., James, Isaac, and Davis, at Pis- cataquog village, Bedford, Souhegan, and Boston. He filled many places, having been civil magistrate, representative to the legislature, etc. In 1814, dur- ing the war with Great Britain, a public call by the governor of the state was made for volunteers, from citizens exempt from military duty, to form themselves into companies for home defence, in case of sudden invasion; about sixty responded, under the command of Captain Isaac Riddle. About 1817 Mr. Riddle was returning from Pembroke muster when a ferry boat crowded with people was about to plunge over Hooksett Falls. Mr. Riddle sprang from his chaise, plunged into the stream, caught the rope attached to the boat, and thus saved about thirty lives."

He married (first), June 5, 1778, Ann Aiken, who was born November 12, 1704, daughter of Captain James and Margaret ( Waugh) Aiken. She died April 6, 1804. At her own door she fell from her horse and dislocated her neck, when about to visit her brother-in-law, William Riddle, who had broken his leg in a saw mill. He married (second), March 6, 1800, Margaret MeGaw, who was born May 25, 1776, and died December 19, 1816, daughter of Jacob MeGaw, of Merrimack. He married ( third ), May 1819, Mrs. Mary Vinal, of Quincy, Massa- chusetts, who was born January 27, 1700, and died April 5, 1837, sister of Captain Amos Lincoln of the tea party in Boston harbor, in 1773. She kept among her relic treasure the axe with which her brother opened the memorable chest of tea. The children of Isaac Riddle were: William Pickels, James, Isaac, Gilman, David, Jacob McGaw, Mar- garet Ann and Rebecca ; the last three by the second wife

(IV) James, second son and child of Captain Isaac and Ann (Aiken) Riddle, was born in Bed-

ford, June 26, 1791, died November 24, 1840, in Merrimack, and was buried in the family tomb at Bedford Center. He was one of the firm of Isaac Riddle & Sons, and after its dissolution he remained at Riddle's Village, Merrimack, leading a very busy life being largely interested in staging before the days of railroads; also carrying on a tavern, store, lumber, and grist mill, fulling mill, blacksmith shop, etc. He married (first). 1816, Charlotte Farmer, sister of Jolin Farmer, the distinguished his- torian and antiquarian. She was born July 20, 1792, and died in 1828. He married (second ), 1829, Laura, daughter of Solomon Barker, of Pelham; she was born January II, 1802. and died March 4, 1831. He married (third ) Eliza Hunt. born May 6, 1807, died July 24. 1884. He had two children by the first wife, and one by the third: Charlotte Mar- garet, Mary Ann, Lincoln and Eliza Frances.

Charlotte Margaret, daughter of James and Charlotte ( Farmer) Riddle, was born in Mer- rimack, February 20, 1817, and died October 22. 1850. She married, 1837, Nathan Parker, banker of Manchester ( see Parker VI).

(I) Eli Dort was born in Surry. New DORT Hampshire. He was an industrious farmer, and resided for many years on West Hill in Keene. His last days were spent in his native town and he died there in 1869.

(II) Eliphalet, son of Eli Dort, was born in 1790. In early life he was a wheelwright and wood- worker in Surry, but he later settled upon a farm located about a mile north of the village, and his death occurred in that town in 1869. He married Lois Bemis, of Poultney, Vermont, and had a family of seven children: George D., David B., Eli, Cyrus, William, Obed G. and Mary E.

(III) Obed Gilman, sixth child and youngest son of Eliphalet and Lois ( Bemis) Dort. was born in Surry, January 25, 1828. After concluding his attendance at the Keene Academy he learned the carriage-painter's trade, and at the age of about twenty years became associated with his brother. George D., in the paint and wall paper business at Keene, under the firm name of George D. Dort & Company. Purchasing his brother's interest some three years later he added a line of drugs to his stock and continued in business alone for twelve years, at the expiration of which time he admitted Clark Chandler to partnership. At the breaking out of the Civil war he raised a company of nearly one hundred men, which was attached to the Sixth Regiment. New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, as Company E, and he went to the front as its captain. After leaving the national capital the Sixth rendered meritorious service at Fortress Monroe, Hatteras, Roanoke Island, Culpepper Court House and other points in Virginia, and participated in the san- guinary battle of Antietam. Just previous to that memorable struggle he received a visit from his wife and son, but this happy meeting with his loved ones was almost immediately followed by the sad news that both had been lost in a collision of the

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"West Point" with another steamer on the Potomac while on their return north. This shock so disabled him as to necessitate his retirement from the army. He had previously been promoted to the rank of major, and he resigned as such in 1863, after the battle of Antietam. Upon his return to Keene he resumed business and continued in company with Mr. Chandler until 1880. In 1875 he organized the Citizens' National Bank and was its first cashier, serving in that capacity until ISSo, when he was chosen its president, and has ever since retained that position. His interest in the mercantile and financial affairs of Keene have proved exceedingly beneficial to the community, and he is highly es- teemed both in business and social circles. He is a member of the Masonic order and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

In 1851 Major Dort married Julia Wakefield, of Marlboro, New Hampshire, whose accidental death has already been referred to. He subsequently mar- ried Sarah Jane Hale, daughter of ex-Governor William Hale. Of his first union there were three children : Arthur W., who was lost in the accident above mentioned; Frank G .; Mary E., who died in infancy. Mr. Frank G. Dort is the Boston rcpre- sentative of Henry K. Wampole & Company. of Philadelphia. He married Kate Cobb, and has three children : Robert G., Frank and Norman Perry Dort.

"The Odiorne name. originally

ODIORNE written Hodierne." says James

Creighton, the gencalogist of the Odiorne family, "is supposed to be derived from the Latin hodiernus, from hodie, of this day. Hence. also, the English word hodiernal. and the Italian, odierna, of this day. This name is extremely rare, but occurs occasionally in French and English an- nals, and has been traced back to the eleventh cen- tury. On the northwest part of France, which the Romans called Armorica, lie the bay and town of Hodierne, or Audoerne. Hodierne, as a personal name, was first baptismal, and given to daughters. This is shown by early and very frequent instances on record. Afterwards this appellation was given to sons, and eventually became a surname. It was to be found, with some variations, in Bretagne and other northern ports of France, also in Jersey and the isles of the northern coast. In English annals the name appears later than in French. This makes it more probable that it was introduced into Eng- land from France, and that the family hearing it is of French origin. Records show its use in England as a surname in the fourteenth century. In English records. as in the French, the family name appears in its etymology under several variations, as Hod- yern, Hodierne, Odierne, Odierna, and Odiarne. The form Odiorne, as used in the United States. has not been discovered in any foreign country. The records show the name has been known in England about six hundred years, Previous to 1657 the ancestor of the Odiorne family joined the colonists at Rye, New Hampshire, and it is possible

they came from Rye, England, for which place Rye, New Hampshire, seems to have been named by set- tlers from the English Rye.

(I) John Odiorne was born about 1627, and died at Newcastle, New Hampshire, in 1707. John and Philip Odiorne, who tradition says were broth- ers, came to Postsmouth and settled there about the year 1650. All the Odiornes of America trace their lineage to this John. January 13, 1660, public lands were allotted at Portsmouth to those who were in- habitants there in 1657. A grant of forty-two acres on Great Island. lying at the entrance of the har- bor, was made to John Odiorne. A few years later he received a second grant, which probably included that section of land at the mouth of the Piscataqua river which has since been known as Odiorne's Point. From 1658 to 1671 his name appears on the town records on subscriptions for the support of religious worship. In 1686 he was a member of the grand jury. He resided at Sandy Beach, now Rye, then a part of Portsmouth. In 1706, the year be- fore liis death, he gave a deed of his homestead to his son John. Administration on his estate was granted to his widow, February 4. 1707. His wife was Mary, daughter of James and Mary Johnson, whom he probably married when about middle age, as his children whose names are here recorded, were not born until he was past forty-five years of age. Their names as far as discovered are Jona- than and John.

(II) John (2), son of John (I) and Mary (Johnson) Odiorne, was born about 1675. ITis home was on Odiorne's Point, on the estate he de- rived from his father, which estate has remained in the family to this date. There are records of con- veyances of real estate made by him and his wife as late as 1725. In these he styles himself "farmer." He had the title of deacon, but of what church can- not be known as the records of the church at New Castle, the nearest to his residence, and to which he probably belonged, are lost, and with them the names of its early officers. His wife's name was Catherine. Their children, as far as known, were: Ebenezer, Samuel, Nathaniel, and John.

(III) John (3), son of John (2) and Catherine Odiorne, died in 1780. He was a farmer by occupa- tion, and lived at New Castle. Nothing is known of his character or condition in life. All that has come down to the present respecting him is but a record of his family afflictions. Two of his sons, captured in the Revolutionary war, died in British prison-ships. He lost a beautiful daughter just blooming into womanhood, by drowning: and of his other children several died before him. His wife's name is not known. Their children were: Lydia, Catherine, Jolin. Benjamin, Abigail, Joseph, Deborah, and Samuel, whose sketch follows.

(IV) Samuel, youngest child of John (3) Odiorne, was born about 1748, and died about 1779. He was a warrior and was captured by the British in the Revolutionary war, and taken to a foreign prison. In those days little compassion was shown to prisoners of war, and he died there under the

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severity of his treatment. He left a wife and one child, Samuel, who is the subject of the next para- graph.

(V) Sammel (2), only son of Samuel (I) Odierne, was born in 1776, and died June 2, 1840, aged sixty-four years. Ile was a farmer and lived near the creek which separates Rye from New Cas- tle H. mharried, in Jine, 1801, Olive Thomas, of Durh: m, who survived him and lived with a son at Little Harbor, until her death, in July. 1870. Their children were: Samuel. Joseph, Charles, Brak Sarah Holbrook, Hannah Sinith and Ellen Thon.as.

VI) Charles Blunt, third son and child of Stimmel (2) and Olive (Thomas) Odi rne, was 1orn abort 1904, and died when he w's seventy- five years. He was a farmer and lived on a beauti- iul ot at the mouth of Sagamore Creek in Ports- month Ilarler, oppo-'te the ancient in i ion of Den- ning Wentworth, one governor of the state. He mar in1. September 27, ISpo Mery Sheaf Yeaton, of New Castle, daughter of Philip Yeaton. She Id February 13, 1005, 33 1 eighty-on . years. Their d'indien wire: Olive Ann, Meri tt, Sarah Will, rd, C" res Woodbury, Frank Pierce, Maria Adelaide and Samuel.

(VII) Sarah Willard, third daughter at 1 child (' Charles blunt and Mary Sieaf ( Yo ton ) Odi- tine, was born in Rye, July 1. 1844. She m rried. Si tu ker LS, 1871. John Sheldon Treu. (Ses Trut VIID).

A branch of the fm'ly of this name removed from inplund to the district Moine before the Revolutionary from the pione r Gomes the present amily

Truth Savage, a resident of North Ansen, Mary fort myers y a captain, but spent the ber gears of his life in An on, where he had av. com | rn to him: Jacob, Esau, I aac, Abram, i'd Perez.

Jane, third son of Jich Stres was born n No h Ansoon Main, in Jant try, 1795, and died Krefeld, Mains July 13, I'M, and seventy-two. l'or wh years after atthinh ; Lis naserity he lived in io, and then i moved to New Portland, "I o he lived a few years. Removing to King- I bought and operated the saw and 'rien l' at that plice for alout fifteen years, and then i obosit and settled on a farm which he had purelord. : p1 there sint the last fifteen years or more of his fir . He was a man who could adapt him- W te lis e vir mient, an 1 did equally well as : 1 !! ; or . frmer In politics he was a Dem-

verd. and in r 'i i us lolif a Methodist. He mar- ried S lin Mo re, born in Madison. Maine, in 1797. died agel ciolty two years. She was a daughter of Goff Moore, a Revolutionary soldier (see Moore. 1ID). Mrs. Savage was a women of many domestic accomplishments, kind and sympathetic, and loved ly her children, and a welcome visitor ameng her neighbors, especially among the sick and the needy.

The children of this union were: Martha, Alvah, Marcia, Sus 11, Cyrene, Asenath, Elery, Elizabeth, Goff, bram. and Isaac M., next mentioned.

( III) Isaac Milton, son of Isaac and Selina ( Modre) Savage, born in Kingfield, February 5, IS21, was educated in the common schools of King- field, which he attended until he was twenty-one years old. He taught one term of school, and the follow'ver simimer lecame a soldier for the Union. He enlisted at Kingfield in September, 1862, and Vis nihde a corporal of Company D, Twenty-eighth Vin Infan ry. The comun ad to which he be- I need was transported by set from New York to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he arrived in Jan- Dry, 150G. Ile ds subsequently tationed at Pensa- c lo (Fort Taranca,). det ched at Plaquemine, I w iro, to chard the village, and taken prisoner faremo division of Texas Rangers, June 18. 1803. The i luegoy le did about fing others who ha ! 1 won coptired with him were par dled, and made noir wert what I Rouge, where they were trans- 10 71.0 1 New Orbris, Mer. Lovisiona, and finally to Shin I-land, where they stayed in the camp 12 21 mis ner vu11 Uhr in August, Set The share your he went to Concord, New Hamp the, and entered the en play of Lewis Barter & Circ aty, dealers in flour and grain with whom here arel five aid : half ve rs, enl then filled for two voir. a simple position with Forbes & . at The fore igh Bra. He then Tened a Andry Ser al d'e ener of Min and Prilge stice'. Con 1. where he sold goods ten years, Notre el He was Noted on South Main street denver, and in the O'! F Ms llock on Plasat First till he sold out all retired from active life, in Arch, You. See INGS Mr. Savage ! trainer of the Gerard Building and I. e: A- simon. He is one of the substantial and plan of Concord, where business reputa- then is un ullied, . 1.' who . character and standing one of the best. He has a large circle of friends von Io bis med character and genial manner. He is. nul rof E. F. Stur devant Pet, Grand Army of th . Remdie, of Command, and amends the Uni- versilia Church. He is a Democrat and has been remind 1 for beal a Few but man of his political faith cannot be elected in wards so strongly Repub- Bem as his

l'e na muriel December 20. 1856, at Concord. Jeni F. Davi, born in Warren, New Hamp- shire October, 1838, daughter of James and Ma- lip1 (T'iyh .) Davis. They have one hild, Goff Syn . Tr at HER bor igh Brilse, 1868, who matric ! Il rence Towle, and now resi les in Hart- for 1. Come tient

Ancestors of the New England PROCTOR Proctors were early arrivals in Bos- ton and participated in the original settlement of several important outlying districts. Descendants of the original immigrants penetrated into remote regions, becoming original settlers in territories which afterward acquired dignity of state-

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hood, and not a few of them went beyond the limits of New England into the great west, where their posterity are still to be found. The Proctors were patriotis during the Revolutionary war and that of 1812-15: loyal to the Union in the memorable civil strife of INDI-65; and in addition to th ir honorable milit ry services they have acquired distinction in civil life, The family is of English origin, and the name is first met with in the records of Norfolk, where as early as the fourteenth century they were closely allied by intermarriage with the celebrated Beurleurs, which was the family name of the earl ( P m' roke. Among the land-holders men- tion ul in these records are Sir William Beauchamp Pro or and his son George, who inherited in turn an estate w i h had been granted originally by John, earl of Pembroke, to his cousin, William de Bertha up, who died in the year 1378. In search- inger Pr ous in other parts of England we find it re roul it "A History of Northumberland," published at Newcastle-on-Tyne by Andrew Reid & Company, that a family of that nome was estab- lisle 1 at Shawden in Yorkshire at the beginning of the sixteenth century, through the marriage of Wil- liam Partor, of Nether Pordler, to Isabel, daugh- tor of J hn Lilburn, of Shawdon. Early in the emi- gnition peried which legan about the year 1029, font of this na ne are known to have come to New England. They were John, Richard, Georges and Roert. Whether they were near relatives or not is now impossible to det rimine, but there is s me evi- dence o show that they wer descendants of the alu vimenti me | William of Nether Bordley, and it is colite reasonable t infer that the latter was de seerded from old Sir William Beauchamp Prostor of Norfolk. These immigrants landed in Boston between the years 1635 and 1613. John Proctor. aged forty years, sailed from London in 1635 on the "Sar:h and Flen," with h's wife and two children, settling first in Ipswich and subsequently in Salem, His son John and the 1 tter's wife were both con- victed of witchcraft in 1692, and the husband was executed, but the wife escaped the death penalty. Some f their descen lants are now residing in Pos- top. Richard Proctor settl I in Yarmouth, Mas a- chin-Ats, and there disappears wholly from the records. George Procter Incated in Dorchester, and there reared a family. The branch of the fam- ily coming directly within the province of this sketch, is a line of descent from Robert, through the latter's son James.

(I) Robert Proctor, the earliest American an- cester of the families mentioned in this sketch, first appears in this country at Concord, Massachusetts, where he was made a freeman in 1643. In 1653 Robert Proctor, in connection with Richard IHildreth anl twenty-seven others, petitioned the general court for a grant of land six miles square "to begin at Merrimack river at a neck of land next to Con- cord river, and so run by Concord river south, and west into the country to make up that circumfer- ene or quantity of land as is ahove expressed." The petition was granted, In 1654, Mr. Proctor removed

to the new plantation which was organized Novem- ber 22, of that year, as a town under the name of Chelmsford. The first four or five of his children were born in Concord, the others in Chelmsford. Hle died in Chainsford, April 28, 1697, leaving lands to some of his children, and having already granted other bunds too six sons, Ilis widow administered on his edta c. The married. December 31, 1645, Jane, the fleet dofight r of Richard Hillreth, of Concerd anl Chelinsbird, the notor of the Hildreths in America, who diol at Chelmsford, in 1688. The children of R bet ard Ja: . wer. twelve in num- ler: Sprph, Ger & m, Mary, Puer, Dorothy, Eliza- beth. Jaimes, Lydia, John, Som u.l, Israel and Thomas.

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Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. III, Part 25

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923 Publication date: 1908 Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 876

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 876